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Choir Vilnius. Circle Ending

by Pranulis, Arutiunian, Monikaze

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1.
Mantvydas Leonas Pranulis. Not Allowed 15:23
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Andrius Arutiunian. We, the Chorus 15:41
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Monikaze. Circle Ending 16:59
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In Lithuania, choral music remains a rather conservative field where the seeds of innovation germinate with considerable difficulty. Despite this, creative impulses aimed at “hoeing” the fields of choral music emerge sporadically. This time, the initiative has come from the State Choir VILNIUS. Back in 2018, it launched the Choir VILNIUS Laboratory for Young Creators, or Vilnius LAB, a project focused on young composers who were given the green light to their ideas in the search for new forms of expression, including sound, interdisciplinary collaboration, multimedia, and spatial solutions. The three Lithuanian composers Mantvydas Leonas Pranulis, Andrius Arutiunian and Monikaze were named the winners. The creative process, which took six months, offered them a rare opportunity to use the choir as a laboratory tool. Always at hand, it could be utilised in finding out – live – which of their ideas worked and which did not. This album presents the three compositions for choir and electronics, the final result of their collaboration with the Choir VILNIUS, its chief conductor Artūras Dambrauskas and composer Mārtiņš Viļums, who worked as a mentor.

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released February 15, 2022

State Choir VILNIUS, Conductor - Artūras Dambrauskas
Solo voices - Justina Kazėnaitė-Šveisterė (1), Monikaze (3)
Recorded at: State Choir VILNIUS studio (1-3), MAMA Studios (3), Vilnius, 2021
Recording engineers: Giedrius Pavilionis, Artūras Dambrauskas (1-3), Monikaze (3)
Mixing: Lukas Smulskis, Mama Studios (1), Andrius Arutiunian (2), Monikaze (3)
Mastering: Arūnas Zujus
Text: Paulina Sofija Nalivaikaitė
Text editing: Howard Jarvis
Photographs: Tomas Terekas
Design: Liudas Parulskis
Producers: Greta Jakobsonaitė, Linas Paulauskis

Released by Music Information Centre Lithuania
Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

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